Archives - 19 July 2017, Wednesday

Singapore is the world’s second largest trader of shark fins after Hong Kong. In 2012-2013 alone, the city state exported $40 million and imported $51 million worth of the cruel product. Shark fins, like elephant skin, rhino horns and bear bile is used in traditional asian medicine as...

It's as yet unclear whether this development will boost or harm Singapore's push to become a global fintech hub. The conditions of the offshore license will prevent Lufax from bringing new services to Singaporean consumers, which could go against the MAS' concerted efforts to nurture ...

Antonio Conte has named four teenagers in his Chelsea squad for the tour to China and Singapore With a shortage of options up front, it means another opportunity for 30-year-old striker Loic Remy Diego Costa, Nemanja Matic and Kurt Zouma are all absent ahead of completing moves away f...

Singapore government has agreed to fund a research project by a local data center provider and a Chinese hardware vendor on designing and building underground and high-rise data centers, as the small island nation’s outsize data center industry faces a future marked by land shortages....

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has offered a military transport airplane, drone surveillance aircraft and use of combat training facilities to support the Philippines' fight against the rising threat of Islamist militancy, the defense ministry said on Wednesday. The offer stemmed fro...

HANOI: Vietnam agreed on Wednesday (Jul 19) to rescue more than 1,000 bears from illegal farms across the country, in a move to end the traditional medicine trade in the creatures' bile. Though bile farms are already outlawed in Vietnam, bears are still captured and caged in illicit f...

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Southeast Asia’s first e-commerce platform for electricity has launched, making it easier for businesses in Singapore to choose renewable energy to power their operations. Electrify.sg was set up by two former Sunseap executives and officially launched on July 12. Based on a consumer’...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has offered a military transport airplane, drone surveillance aircraft and use of combat training facilities to support the Philippines' fight against the rising threat of Islamist militancy, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. The offer stemmed fro...

PARIS: French investigators have indicted two former top executives in a long-running probe into alleged kickbacks from the 2002 sale of submarines to Malaysia, sources close to the inquiry said on Tuesday (Jul 18). The two are Philippe Japiot, former chairman of the French naval dock...

Singapore’s diplomats aren’t shrinking from any challenge to defend the Lion City’s national interest against major powers such as China , even at the risk of occasional reprisals. In an interview with This Week in Asia , Chan Heng Chee, one of the country’s top envoys, dismissed talk...

The issue of Indonesian pribumi (indigenous people) is re-emerging. This time, it was brought up in a speech by General Gatot Nurmantyo, the Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces, given at the National Leadership Conference of the Golkar Party on May 22 held in Balikpapan, East Kal...

This month seven years ago at the Hanoi ASEAN Regional Forum, then secretary of state Hillary Clinton made a very public, and — for the Chinese — surprising, intervention into the South China Sea (SCS) disputes. This move implicated Washington in a way that was probably unforeseen in ...

WUHU, ANHUI - A woman from eastern China reportedly died recently after she was forced to undergo four abortions in a year as her husband wanted a son. The woman - identified only by her first name of Yueyue - had fallen ill as she suffered from poor health due to the repeated abortio...

Singapore-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promoter One Championship has raised total capital of US$100 million (S$137 million) following new deals with two major investors. The Straits Times understands that One Championship, Asia's largest MMA organisation, has secured equity investme...

Antonio Conte has named four teenagers in his Chelsea squad for the tour to China and Singapore With a shortage of options up front, it means another opportunity for 30-year-old striker Loic Remy Diego Costa, Nemanja Matic and Kurt Zouma are all absent ahead of completing moves away f...

From July 11 to 19, Singapore and Indonesian special forces carried out the latest iteration of their annual bilateral exercise. As I have pointed out before at The Diplomat , the security relationship between Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest state, and Singapore, the subregion’s s...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's largest bank by assets, PT Bank Mandiri Tbk (BMRI.JK ), plans to open a full branch in Singapore as it makes a push into private banking in the city-state by targeting freshly declared wealth under Indonesia's tax amnesty scheme. Most of the offshore as...

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's largest bank by assets, PT Bank Mandiri Tbk (BMRI.JK ), plans to open a full branch in Singapore as it makes a push into private banking in the city-state by targeting freshly declared wealth under Indonesia's tax amnesty scheme. Most of the offshore as...

BUDAPEST: Cheong Jun Hoong won Malaysia's first ever diving gold medal at the aquatics world championships in Budapest on Wednesday (Jul 19) in the women's 10 metre platform event. "My god, I'm a world champion!" said Cheong who came first with 397.50 points. "I hoped for a medal, but...

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) is reviewing the serving of nuts on board its flights after a toddler suffering from anaphylaxis - an allergy towards peanuts - had a reaction on board a Melbourne-bound flight. According to Australian media, the young boy's family had requested a n...

(REUTERS) - The Hogwarts universe is set to expand by an additional two new Harry Potter books, published in conjunction with a British Library event, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the magical series. The library exhibition titled, A History of Magic, featuring the two boo...

WASHINGTON (NYTimes) - The Afghan teenager didn't say anything as she scrolled through three days' worth of pictures on her phone, her finger swiping across the screen. Feet dangling over a Washington fountain. Posing with students from Iraq and Iran. A meal carefully laid out on an a...

MANILA - Singapore has offered dromes and its urban warfare training facilities to help Philippine troops dislodge Muslim militants still holding up in the southern city of Marawi after nearly three months of fighting.